The twentysix clues Author:Isabel Ostrander Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IH Margot FOR a moment they stared and then Calvin Norwood gasped: "But it seems incredible! That window is ten feet or more from the ground and th... more »ere is only an open space beneath this end of the extension, for the kitchen although built out also does not reach the length of the museum. There is no way in which a person could climb up here, to say nothing of one burdened with the weight of a dead body." "If you will glance out of the window you will see how easily that difficulty was overcome," interrupted Terhune. "A short ladder has been placed against the house, its upper end resting upon the ledge of the window." "The ladder!" Norwood exclaimed. "I never thought of that! It is used for preening the vines which run over the yard fence and is usually lying around somewhere at hand, but it did not occur to me that anyone would ever employ it as a means of gaining ingress here!" A rapid but fairly comprehensive search of the museum disclosed no further clues nor traces of the assailant's presence and Inspector Druet went to the telephone to summon the Chief Medical Examiner and notify the Homicide Bureau. McCarty, with Dennis in tow, trailed him wistfully into the hall. "I'll be taking myself off now, Inspector," he remarked. "You've the case in hand, to say nothing of an expert like Mr. Terhune right on the job to help you and Mr. Norwood himself." "Between you and me, Mac," the Inspector interrupted confidentially, "old Norwood is a plain nut. He has been the pest of the department for the last twenty years, dabbling and interfering in every case that has come up, offering advice and getting under foot generally. You know how we've always been bothered with amateur Sherlock Holmeses, but he is the worst crank of the lot and the fact that he has n...« less